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Former CenComm Commander to Speak at Saint Leo University on Wednesday

February 26, 2014

The community is invited to hear
General Doug Brown, U.S. Army (ret.), at Saint Leo’s University
Campus at 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, February 26 in the
Greenfelder-Denlinger Boardrooms in the Student Community Center.
His appearance is co-sponsored by the Department of Criminal
Justice and the Department of Social Sciences. His presentation is
titled “NATO and Its Relationship to World Politics.” Questions and
answers will follow his lecture. The community is invited to attend
this free program.

General Bryan "Doug" Brown recently retired after a
distinguished career of 40 years in the United States Army. Gen.
Brown most recently served as the Commander of U.S. Special
Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. U.S. Special
Operations Command is the Department of Defense's lead command for
planning and synchronizing the Global War on Terrorism.

In 2008, he was a speaker at the undergraduate
ceremony for the Saint Leo University commencement.

General Brown entered the Army in 1967 as a private
in the infantry and, over his many years of service, he advanced to
the rank of four-star general. During his career, he was involved
in combat operations in Vietnam, Grenada, Operations Desert Shield
and Desert Storm, and others. General Brown was the first member of
the Army's Aviation Branch to be promoted to the rank of four- star
General.

General Brown holds a Bachelor's Degree from Cameron
University and a Master's Degree in Business from Webster
University. He is a graduate of the Harvard Executive Education
Program's National and International Security Managers Course. His
awards and decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal,
Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star Medal and
the Air Medal with “Valor” Device. He also wears the Special Forces
Tab, Master Army Aviator Badge, Military Free Fall Parachutist
Badge and the Air Assault Badge. General Brown is a recipient of
the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and was selected as the
Congressional Medal of Honor Society Patriot of the Year for
2007.

For more information about the program, contact
Amanda Wright, academic coordinator for social sciences, at amanda.wright@saintleo.edu or (352)
588-8602.